RE: Mens rea of political leaders / Hoover's guilt

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<<<CB: 7/8's true. I didn't say "everything you do is necessarily
justified".  Lenin never did anything analogous to blindly running red
lights, etc.>>>

Lenin ordered the taking of food peasants were growing for their own
subsistence.  If I was sitting on the jury, that is blindly running a red
light or worse.

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CB:  You haven't proven the fact you assert.

However, the analogy is more like the White Armies were about drive through a red light into a crowd of workers and peasants, and Lenin ordered that a tank be put in the path of the onrushing counterrevolutionaries. A People's Court finds his actions justifiable.